{"id":212510,"date":"2025-04-26T22:04:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T03:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/the-case-for-open-decentralized-beneficial-general-intelligence-with-ben-goertzel"},"modified":"2025-04-26T22:04:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T03:04:28","slug":"the-case-for-open-decentralized-beneficial-general-intelligence-with-ben-goertzel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/the-case-for-open-decentralized-beneficial-general-intelligence-with-ben-goertzel","title":{"rendered":"The case for open decentralized beneficial general intelligence, with Ben Goertzel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vqxny6plDi4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We live at a time when humanity has never experienced such a rapid pace of change. We\u2019re in the midst of unprecedented technological change, cultural change, political change, and philosophical change.<\/p>\n<p>Some observers predict that the pace of change will slow down, but others anticipate that it will in fact increase \u2014 largely due to artificial intelligence leaping forward in capability, to the point where it exceeds human cognitive capabilities in every dimension.<\/p>\n<p>How credible is such a possibility? How should humanity prepare for it? What values should guide us in our reactions and proactions to various new opportunities and potential threats that seem to be emerging almost daily?<\/p>\n<p>The guest in this London Futurists webinar, Ben Goertzel, has arguably thought longer, harder, more creatively, and more boldly, about these questions, than anyone else on the planet. But he\u2019s not just a thinker; Ben is very much also a doer \u2014 an organiser, an entrepreneur, an architect, an engineer, and a leader of too many initiatives to mention them all individually.<\/p>\n<p>But let\u2019s briefly highlight:<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 1.3em;\">\u2022<\/span> Ben\u2019s role as the long-time champion of the concept of AGI, artificial general intelligence;<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 1.3em;\">\u2022<\/span> his role as the founder and leader of SingularityNET, with its mission to create a decentralized, democratic, inclusive and beneficial AGI;<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 1.3em;\">\u2022<\/span> his leadership roles at Humanity+, the international transhumanist organisation, where he has served since 2008 as either Vice Chair or Chair;<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 1.3em;\">\u2022<\/span> and his commitment to the writing and publication of mind-expanding ideas, such as his 2010 book \\.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We live at a time when humanity has never experienced such a rapid pace of change. We\u2019re in the midst of unprecedented technological change, cultural change, political change, and philosophical change. Some observers predict that the pace of change will slow down, but others anticipate that it will in fact increase \u2014 largely due to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,64,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}